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Question: What is the relationship between words and thoughts? Give examples. At first, thoughts and words are not related in any way whatsoever, however, once we look below the surface, some coherence begins to form. In 'Flowers for Algernon' we can see that only as Charlie's vocabulary and phraseology develops, is he capable to ratiocinate at a higher and more convolute level. A child who has a limited lexicon to one thousand words is not able to delineate a sunset in such full expressive detail as an adult who has years of experience and the terminology to portray such a beautiful scene. The child might describe it plainly as ' a lovely scene', whilst the adult could say 'When I gaze upon this pulchritudinous panorama, my heart is filled with an overflowing tranquillity' he is linking a sunset to calm and peace. The child, no less right, is not yet...

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